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Bulgaria can play a crucial mediator role in getting Azerbaijan near to a European Union entry, according to Bulgarian Parliamentary Chair Tsetska Tsacheva. Tsacheva is currently on an official visit to Azerbaijan, where she has met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. Tsacheva and Aliyev have discussed their countries’ cooperation in …

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will organize the spring economic forum in Batumi (Georgia) between May 11-14. The forum is expected to focus the discussion on economic challenges of both regional and global importance. Around 250 guests from different countries of the world, including 120 MPs will attend the event.

Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia’s president on Monday. This is Putin’s third term in office. “We are entering a new stage of national development,” Putin

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili received the Spanish Congress of Deputies (lower house) Foreign Relations Committee chairman Josep Antoni Duran. Duran hailed the political, economic and social reforms and said that his country supports Georgia’s aspiration to NATO and the EU. The two parts discussed bilateral relations and economic cooperation. Duran …

The Commissioner of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Patricia Flor will visit Georgia on May 2-3. During the visit, former German Ambassador to Georgia will meet with Georgian Foreign Minister, Georgian Minister of Education and State Minister for Reintegration.

Georgian Parliament to discuss today with academic circles a draft strategy for relations with the people of the North Caucasus. The objective of the strategy is to enhance relations between the people of Georgia and the North Caucasus in fields like culture, education, commerce and science.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, who is on a two-day official visit to Azerbaijan, has said that the main route for exporting Azeri gas to Bulgaria must cross Turkey. Speaking after a Friday meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart

Newly-appointed ambassador of Bulgaria, Volodya Chanev Neykov, arrived in Tashkent. Yesterday he held a meeting at the country’s Foreign Ministry, during which he presented an accreditation letter of Bulgarian Foreign Minister. The two sides discussed Uzbek-Bulgarian relations in focused on political, trade and investment cooperation.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. President Ilham Aliyev said bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and Bulgaria were rapidly developing in various fields, including in the economic one. He noted there was good potential to boost energy cooperation and stressed the importance of developing …

The Russian delegation to PACE announced the impossibility of solving the problems existing between Georgia and Russia on Abkhazia and South Ossetia. This is according to the head